Sidbury Manor
Sidbury Manor is a privately owned 19th-century country mansion situated at Sidbury, Sidmouth, East Devon. It is a Grade II listed building.[1]
David Cave of Cleve Hill, Gloucestershire, acquired land in and about fashionable Sidmouth in the mid-1800s. His son Rt Hon Stephen Cave was Member of Parliament for New Shoreham 1859 -1880 and was twice Postmaster General. In the 1870s he commissioned architect David Brandon to design a substantial new mansion on a prominent site at Sidbury. The house in a mock Jacobean style was completed in 1879. Cave who died in 1880 never lived there but bequeathed the house and the estate of some 3800 acres [2] to his younger brother Charles who in 1896 was created the first of the Cave baronets.
The house remains in the ownership of the Cave family.
References
- ↑ Heritage Gateway; architectural description of listed building
- ↑ The Acre-ocracy of England 1876 John Bateman]